Marseille (fra)

Marseille

Marseille ranks 86th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Shizuoka Prefecture, Vancouver, and Stuttgart. Memorable people born in Marseille include Zinedine Zidane, Petronius, and Honoré Daumier. Memorable people who died in Marseille include André-Marie Ampère, Arthur Rimbaud, and Alexander I of Yugoslavia. Marseille has been the birth place of many soccer players, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Marseille is located in France.

Marseille is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Marseille is the second-most populous city in France, after Paris, with 877,215 inhabitants in 2022 over a municipal territory of 241 km2 (93 sq mi). Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over 3,972 km2 (1,534 sq mi), had a population of 1,900,957 at the Jan. 2022 census. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an indirectly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropolitan issues, with a population of 1,922,626 at the Jan. 2022 census. Read more on Wikipedia